What We Do

Our Approach

CMS Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI)

We have extensive experience working across multiple models under Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) under the CMMI Consolidated Innovation Center Development and IT Management (CICDIM) contract and the Research, Management, Assessment, Design, and Analysis (RMADA) contract vehicle.

We accomplish our mission, helping our clients obtain an ATO, by providing full, life cycle support services across the XLC, infusing agile development processes and methodologies into the pre-existing CMS XLC process. Our pre-existing knowledge of CMS and the data centers, security compliance, and steps to obtaining the ATO are applied seamlessly to your project.

We work with your team, ensuring quality deliverables, preparation for gate reviews, and a secure architecture.

Key Relationships: We have existing key relationships at CMMI & CMS, along with other healthcare organizations and agencies.

Security, SCA, ATO

FISMA / NIST Compliance

SCA Documentation Support

ATO Approvals

BDC / VDC / AWS Security Architecture Designs

Shared Services

Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)

We have extensive experience working across multiple PMOs within the VA, including the NwHIN VLER PMO and the Transformation Twenty-One Total Technology Program (T4) Contract Vehicle. Ascend IST’s personnel posses strong experience working with Veterans and the VA to ensure success across VLER and multiple initiatives involving Veterans and their families. We accomplish our mission with the VA, developing and soliciting requirements from key stakeholders, developing user stories, working with multiple Project Management Offices (PMOs), and providing expertise around Salesforce configuration and development, healthcare interoperability, and agile software development methodologies.